The Globalist

Reflections on Merkel’s curious mixture of profound ethics paired with high-handedness and naiveté.

That such a substantial number of Americans want to see Trump as their president is an alarming signal.

Tsai may well come to redefine female leadership in Asia.

After Lehman and the Eurozone, will China and oil cause another calamity in the markets?

Sanders and Trump(!) defending the interests of the U.S. middle class is a long overdue exercise in democracy.

Has Iraq’s extensive use of the death penalty done anything to deter terrorism?

There is a recent decline of capital punishment in one of the two remaining industrialized nations with the death penalty.

How the bosses of English football are using an ages-old concept to globalize entertainment for the masses.

Is the Saudi monarchy echoing the final stages of the Shah’s monarchy in Iran?

Iran is likely the world’s second-most prolific user of the death penalty.